Making Of: Come Behind the Scenes of Our Journey to 100 Podcast Episodes
Want to know what really happens behind the scenes as a couple builds a podcast from zero to 100 episodes—while homeschooling five kids, running businesses, and inspiring families to fund their freedom lifestyle?
In this special “Making Of” episode, Crystal and Anthony Obey pull back the curtain and invite you to join their personal journey as they build the Homeschool Money podcast step by step.
You’ll hear the real-life highs, lows, laughs, and lessons learned from producing the first 10 episodes—complete with birthday cake breaks, air-conditioning breakdowns, toddler interruptions, and family teamwork that makes every episode possible.
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Crystal and Anthony share how this show has become a true family affair, how their kids have helped choose music and record the outro, and what it’s teaching them about building something meaningful together.
You’ll also hear the top three most popular episodes so far, what surprised them most about their audience, and the powerful reminder that every big goal is built one faithful step at a time.
Whether you’re a homeschooling parent, entrepreneur, or creative dreaming of starting your own podcast or movement, this candid behind-the-scenes look will inspire you to keep going—even when life gets messy. Because the journey matters just as much as the destination.
🎧 In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
- What it’s really like to build a podcast as a married couple and homeschooling family
- The top 3 most-listened-to episodes (and why they resonated most)
- Funny and heartfelt behind-the-scenes moments from their first 10 episodes
- Lessons learned about family, faith, and building something that lasts
- How you can become part of the journey to 100 episodes
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Transcript
Join us in today's episode as
we take you behind the scenes.
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:This is a look at the making
of our journey to 100 podcast
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:episodes of homeschool money.
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:Intro: A fast growing number
of parents are starting their
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:homeschooling journey while others
have been homeschooling for years.
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:All of these parents are asking one big
question, how can I afford to homeschool?
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:We are here to answer that
important question once and for all.
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:Hi, I'm Crystal Obby.
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:And I'm Anthony Obby.
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:We've been homeschooling our five
kids for 13 years and we funded it.
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:Through our online consulting business
that we've been running for over 17
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:years now, we're combining Crystal's
financial coaching expertise with my
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:digital marketing background where I help
entrepreneurs launch and sell online.
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:We're here to help fellow homeschooling
parents self-fund their homeschool
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:journey and create lifestyle businesses.
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:For financial freedom without a nine to
five job, are you ready to start living
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:life on your own terms and make your
homeschooling experience a lot more fun?
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:Well then sit back, crank up
the volume, and enjoy this
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:episode of Homeschool Money.
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:welcome, welcome, welcome.
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:Anthony Obie here.
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:Crystal Obie here.
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:We're so glad that you have joined
us for this making of episodes.
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:This is a behind the scenes
look of what's happened so far.
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:After 10 episodes making homeschool money.
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:We want to take you behind the scenes
and let you be a part of this journey.
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:One of the things that we talk
about and one of the steps in
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:our whole homeschool money.
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:System is business building, and so
why not let you see behind the scenes
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:as we build this podcast, we want you
to be a part of that, and hopefully
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:that will encourage you of the, the,
the good, bad, the ugly, the nitty
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:gritty of what it takes and what it
will take for you to build your thing.
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:And as you are maybe currently building
your thing, we hope that this encourages.
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:You that you know you're not isolated.
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:You're not alone.
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:Every single one of us have a lot that
we have to deal with, a lot that we have
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:to juggle and, and all the cro crocodiles
that we have to wrestle in order to reach
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:the goal that we're trying to reach.
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:And so we wanna just make you a part of
our journey in building this podcast.
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:Yeah, this has been such an exciting
journey so far, and we've had.
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:The idea to do this podcast and just
get this message out here for so
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:long, it's like, wow, we've done a
whole lot to get to these 10 episodes.
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:It doesn't seem like it's
just been 10 episodes.
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:And then we spend so much time
thinking about what we're gonna
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:say and what you guys need to
hear, and so we just were thinking.
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:Why don't we bring everybody along
with us so that we can just keep making
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:sure that everybody gets what they
need and then we can also be able to
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:celebrate together because we know
we're gonna get to a hundred episodes.
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:And so this has been an exciting
journey so far, and I just think
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my favorite parts of the show.
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:Being able to go back
and hear ourselves later.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Whenever we like read episode
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:60 and 70 and just hear what
were we dealing with then?
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:And just how the show kind of changes.
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:Well thank you so much for introducing
this content idea for the podcast.
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:But it is, this is gonna like.
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:Unofficially be the actual place
where we sort of document our own
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:process and sort of create, have a,
a, a diary of our own experience going
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:from zero to 10 and then from 10 to 20
episodes and beyond, all the way to.
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:The goal of a hundred episodes and that's
interesting because I'm not the type of
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:person that likes to document and write
in diaries in front of people, so, right.
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:This is literally the first
time I've ever done this before.
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:Well, I guess that just goes to show how
much you love the homeschooling community.
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:Fellow moms and dads out there
doing the thing, and also how much
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:you love podcasting and this whole
experience of just sharing your
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:heart, sharing your soul, sharing
your mind, and your passion for
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:I think for parents, I mean, it really
goes to show your passion for it all.
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:We have looked at what could be the most
helpful thing, and definitely coming
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episodes, and then hearing all 10 of the
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and hears those, it's just gonna be.
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where everyone can come and learn
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:that they can have all the money
they need to homeschool their kids.
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:And so even seeing how this show
is built could be helpful to
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:whatever someone is building.
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:So the first thing that we wanna
talk about is interesting facts.
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:We just wanna talk about
the, the top three.
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why we think they resonated so much.
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three and then count down to one.
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:We're gonna go pretty quickly, so, but
before we do that, I wanted to talk
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this episode, our son was in here in
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:our office and he was asking what I
was working on and what we were talking
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:about, and I was telling him how we
want to do a recap for the podcast.
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:And I told him, so this is our firstborn,
our 14-year-old, our first, yeah.
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had a podcast before for business,
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that was the one about parenting.
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:Now, this was a business podcast
because we're specifically talking
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and just, just straight marketing.
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and that, I mean, it was like the
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and everything were at a certain
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wanna learn about, they, people
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also wanted to grow their business.
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parents out here who are really
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things that helped us.
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we really do need to hone in
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of course they need some help.
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parent, you have no instructions.
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send the kid back, and you're
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:He is like, you guys went to the hospital
and had steak and lobster at the hospital.
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gotta keep this human alive, right?
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:And he's like, because we were talking
about how we don't, we're not really good
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a green thumb in parenting.
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:And so he's like, with a child, you, you,
you need, they like with a plant, they
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some need less water.
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get any second chances.
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parents want some help.
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14-year-old, like, you need to know
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alive and then, you know, need to
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told him, I said, Hey, I'm gonna share
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know that even our own child said that.
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topic to keep talking about
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best reinforcement right there.
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:That boy never ceases to amaze me with
his insights and his his reasoning
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:So the number three most listened to
episode is back to School Balance,
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episode is top five core beliefs that
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:I'm really glad that a lot of people
have enjoyed that episode so far because
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of put that out there and just share.
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:Our values and the type of people we are,
because it really does govern just the
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the time and energy to do this, this show.
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we've made decisions and in, in business
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:choice what we choose to do for a living.
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choice to homeschool and everything.
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a a lot of other folks out there.
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episode and I'm really glad that
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work with, they're typically very values
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we work with really values conscious
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are all in on things that we going on.
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interesting just to see.
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was building the family.
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five kids in Homeschooling.
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because, you know, like I, I, I shared.
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I just, I, yeah, I just, I shared a
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that should be documented is we
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say and we're like, we're just
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didn't have anything to say.
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is that I'm a copywriter for a living.
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preachers, so I cannot help but go along.
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than an hour, but we were trying to
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and things and lower expectations,
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how you shared your heart and everything.
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that's at the 10th episode.
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it is very clear that these top three.
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before we got to the to the room where
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some of, some leftover birthday cake.
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turned 14 years old and had
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separately for a run, and I said.
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have a protein shake?
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make our protein shakes.
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say it in front of the kids.
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let's have the cake.
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nutrients and my protein.
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gonna always have this cake.
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the cake 'cause we're still a
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experienced this before and we're back at
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having anymore, God willing.
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he's gonna want some too.
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him a very thin slice of the CAKE
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kids added sugar until they're two.
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of actual cake this weekend.
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then we were, you know, getting ready to
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we just gave that wild little
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loaded up on sugar, right.
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recording is the, the 2-year-old.
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years ago, before we had our number three
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like, or maybe I was our number four.
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of a dime having fun.
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they're like besties, you know?
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the downstairs and into every room.
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like we, I, I call him a shark
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other, for others for a little bit.
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in in another room doing something,
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10 minutes and we can hear him stomping
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just to see what's going on.
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he'll go going back downstairs.
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but we're getting through it.
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learned about podcasting in the.
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we just really love podcasting.
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us to help a lot of people, and we love
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thing is that in the making of.
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to involve our kids.
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kids on social media and things a lot.
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like for family to see that, hey,
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not on there a lot with our kids.
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it was like, okay, we're audio, so
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you know, the FaceTime and all that
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he's lost his two front teeth.
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he needed to say, and it was just
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change that script because, well,
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S'S really well at all.
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on there, our little 6-year-old boy that's
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because he's missing his two front teeth.
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we've ever chaired in any of the other
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you have an 11-year-old, a 9-year-old,
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I love listening to that.
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because they're little voices.
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I just absolutely love it.
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I hear it, and then the last one ends
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because like all the music we share, you
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they all helped pick out the music and.
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together as a family.
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just getting to this point.
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maybe a little bit unexpected is the
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because it's, we're right where it's
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office area is like right below it.
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in this room in particular.
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whenever we're getting ready to film.
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while we were filming the, the first
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so we all went downstairs 'cause
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can't get here till Monday.
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record on the weekend or something.
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where it's nice and cool and then they
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back like three times.
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when we were about to record.
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going on with this thing.
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it was not a big deal.
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have a zoned thing in our house.
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in your office and work and you're
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that we put our blood, sweat, and
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I, in, in recording, I do our production
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the, the mixing of the music with the
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:cuts of audio and all of that stuff.
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:And so, you know, coming into podcasting,
we got the equipment that was most
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:recommended, but now I realize that
there's re most recommended in general.
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:And then there is, after you attended
a podcast conference, we realized
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:that, oh my gosh, there's like a whole.
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:Other like high level, pro
professional level of podcasting
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:equipment that is recommended out
there that you don't see in Best Buy?
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:Yeah.
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:Right.
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:No.
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:No.
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:And then like I come in one day.
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:And you're like, looking at this magazine,
and I'm like, what are you doing?
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:And you, you've created
a whole shopping list.
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:Yes.
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:And I'm like, we gotta get past
few more episodes before we
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:invest anymore Right into this.
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:It's so fun.
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:There's like never ending levels of
what you can invest into a podcast.
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:So we're gonna do the best
with what we have right now.
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:That's right.
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:And continue upleveling.
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:Bringing our best to every day.
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:But that's super fun.
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:Yeah, that is.
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:And one of the things we notice is that,
you know whenever I go to add the sound
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:studio sound in the software that we
use for, you know, hopefully improving
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:the polish, is that it can sometimes you
know, glitch a little bit or, or cut a
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:little bit of our laughter that we have.
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:Or sometimes if there's two voices
talking at once, it will slightly.
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:You know fade out a voice
or something like that.
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:And so that's something
that we are bearing with.
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:We hope that you bear
with us through that.
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:We will upgrade.
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:And, we've got podcast goals now, and I,
and you're being really nice about it.
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:'cause you know, you're the.
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:The one who does it.
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:So you really take it seriously.
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:Yeah.
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:And I'm like, Hey, let's
just get this stuff done.
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:So you do a really good job
of staying on top of that and
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:it's gonna, Hey, buy a hundred
episodes, it's gonna be perfection.
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:That's right.
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:It's gonna be ultimate perfection.
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:That's right.
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:That's right.
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:And so, and so the next thing we'll talk
about just to time invested into putting
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:this together, there's research time,
there is recording time, and then there's,
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:it's like since we're married mm-hmm.
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:I mean, we are talking about this,
you know, in the bed, in at lunch.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:You know, in the car.
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:It's like.
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:Doing a podcast kind of consumes your
thoughts and everything and whenever
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:you're really passionate about it.
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:So the time we put into this, we
were talking, you know, all of our
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:certifications, all of our experience,
all of our years of marriage,
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:years of parenting, our homeschool
experience, plus us being personally.
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:Like we are this demographic
of right know, we do homeschool
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:and pay for our homeschooling.
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:Right?
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:And so all that is all part of us
preparing for this podcast because now
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:we're trying to just, you know, narrow
it down to what we can say in about,
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:you know, 20 or 30 minutes or something.
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:But it's a lot of time going
into just all of that plus the
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:preparation of the episodes.
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:Yeah.
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:And so.
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:We are working on making sure
that we work effectively.
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:'cause one thing we have made a
value is that we are both trying to
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:be on as many episodes as possible.
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:Yeah.
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:So it, we could go, we could have
so many more podcasts done if you
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:would just pop out podcasts and if
I would just pop out some podcasts.
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:But we literally make sure that
we come together and we also make
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:sure that we have handled any
conflicts or just whatever, like
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:when we show up on the microphone.
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:We are good.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:And we are happy and we are on one accord
about whatever we're talking about.
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:And you know, if you're married
out there, that takes work itself.
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:It takes a lot of work.
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:Absolutely.
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:Yeah.
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:And so whatever has gone on in the day,
all that stuff has been dealt with.
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:And so just getting to the microphone
and being able to record and having
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:things to say that is an investment.
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:3 Comm: Hey, I hope
you're enjoying the show.
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:We'll get right back to the
discussion, but I do want to talk
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:high level with you real quick.
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:Yeah.
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:So this is a living, breathing thing.
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:You know?
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:We are, we're constantly making
adjustments, real time and
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:thinking about praying about.
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:Considering, you know, what is the best
presentation for you and trying to meet
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:you where you may be in your journey.
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:And so, for instance, we had an
episode that we planned on doing
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:together to just sort of share
something about us and our backgrounds.
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:And we planned on doing it together.
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:But, you know, when we actually laid
out what I wanted to share about my
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:background and when you shared, laid out
what you wanted to share, we, we realized.
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:We can't do it together, we have to do 'em
separately because there's a lot in your
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:story that brought you to the decision.
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:The decision of wanting to podcast
and, and do homeschool money.
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:And there was a lot that brought me to
the place where I went to homeschool and
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:wanting to do homeschool money as well.
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:And so that's how he made
those two separate episodes.
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:Yeah.
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:'cause that was as, that was already
listed as being a just combined episode.
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:Yeah.
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:Joint episode.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:And then.
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:It's, I think it ended up being a
really great decision because as you
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:can see, your story is the top episode.
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:Yeah.
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:And so had we emerged them together,
it probably wouldn't have been
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:as impactful because we'd have
to skip over so many things.
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:'cause who wants to sit here and
listen for two hours to us, you know?
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:Yeah.
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:And so by.
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:Both of us being able to speak
individually, we were able to go
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:deeper into our own core backgrounds.
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:Yeah.
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:And then we still have some more episodes
that'll be coming up, because that
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:only got us both to like 18 years old.
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:Yeah.
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:You know, we've been together 25 years.
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:Yeah.
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:So we still need to do the,
the episodes on after that.
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:And then we have, you know, we've
been homeschooling for, you know,
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:over a decade, so going on, you
know, 15, 14, 15 years or whatever.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:14 years.
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:So, that ended up being a really
good decision to make that change.
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:Yeah.
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:One of the ways thinking about how
podcasting has impacted us one of the
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:ways that it is impacted us that, that
I, I see is that, you know, we have.
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:Opened this up and made
it a whole family process.
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:Right.
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:We have have involved our kids pretty
much at every step of the process, and
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:that's what homeschoolers like to do.
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:Like, we like to live a
integrated lifestyle, right?
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:We like to, when we're cooking in the
kitchen, we like to involve our kids
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:to teach them how to cook and so.
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:I can tell my, my, my first born
boy when he was 13 years old, and
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:now our 11-year-old girl knows how
to do the same thing if I tell them
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:to go ahead and make spaghetti.
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:They know how to make it and it's
not just average Joe spaghetti.
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:It's pretty good stuff, and they know how
to do it all themselves at this point.
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:Make a pot of rice.
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:They know how to do it all
themselves at, at this point.
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:If I tell 'em to bake some chicken
that comes out tasting like good
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:rotisserie chicken, they know how
to do it all themselves right now.
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:So they actually know how to make meals.
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:Hot meals for themselves right now.
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:And a lot of kids just, I mean,
when I was coming up, kids wouldn't
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:learn that kind of stuff, you know?
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:In large part.
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:And and so we, we've made our kids a part
of this process picking out music for
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:our commercials, and looking at these
software that we use to edit the podcast
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:episodes, they even voted on the pictures
that we used for Arthur, our Thumb.
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:That's right, that's right.
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:Yeah.
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:And then also the.
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:Just the filming of the
commercials and everything.
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:That was a fun process.
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:Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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:Yeah.
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:So we've involved them a lot and, and, and
used, used this as a teaching opportunity
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:because our kids want to go into this
field, and so we want this to be a
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:family process and a learning opportunity
for them because it may be a big part.
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:Are a significant part of
something they do in the future.
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:And it also helped us really
realize the, and just appreciate
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:the journey that we've been on.
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:I mean, there's a lot of work that goes
into being able to live an integrated life
665
:and being able to fund it all and being
able to you know, put together all the
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:pieces that we've had to put together.
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:Because when we're sitting here trying
to express it all, it's like, we can
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:only say that on this episode because
it goes into so many other areas.
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:And so we, trying to break
everything down has showed us.
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:How many different modalities we've
had to master in order just to get here
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:while also going through lots of things,
just of being together for 25 years.
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:All the things that happened in the
course of multiple decades, you know, in
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:the world and just in our families and
just personally, I mean, just staying in,
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:in the fight and being able to be here.
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:That is a big deal.
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:And so whenever we're trying to
share it with other people, it
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:lets you see, wow, we've really.
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:Put in a lot here.
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:And so being able to impact others'
lives, we really want people to know
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:that it takes a lot, but it is doable
and it can be amazing and everybody's
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:gonna be doing better because this
is an amazing time to homeschool.
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:And I'm so glad that we get a chance to be
here right now to be able to help people.
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:And this podcast with
these first 10 episodes.
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:I'm very happy about them and
I'm so looking forward because
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:I know what we have coming up.
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:I'm so looking forward to those too.
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:That's right.
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:And so as we look ahead for the upcoming
episodes on this journey to a hundred
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:podcast episodes, we really would
love and appreciate your involvement.
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:What pressing questions do you have
concerning money for homeschooling?
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:Maybe it's a question regarding.
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:Your personal finances or a budgeting
question, or an insurance question,
693
:or maybe it's a question of your, the
business that you've been thinking of
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:starting or planning on, or, or the
bus business that you're currently
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growing it and scaling it in the
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:midst of homeschooling your kids.
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:Whatever that question
may be, share with us.
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to hear from you and just make
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and your, your friendship.
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:Get out to more people.
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:Yeah, I really wanna just
express that I'm so grateful for
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:everyone that has encouraged us.
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:I mean, everywhere we have gone and talked
about the podcast and I mean, we have
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:some really great interviews coming up
and some really great content coming up.
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:It's just been well received and so
encouraging and it's been nothing but a
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:positive experience and just seeing how
this is a huge topic and we have so many
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:things that we wanna share, and so based
on how people respond and what's going on.
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:You know, one topic could get moved
up based on if you reach out and
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:say something, and so we, we have a
plan of sharing things with you, but
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:we definitely want you to know that
you can be a part of this show and
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:we want to invite you to do that.
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:That's right.
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:Let's remember that together.
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bigger than just a podcast.
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:This is a movement and we're
so glad that you're with us.
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homeschool money so that we can
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